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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of memorable ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. The director's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the upturned ship to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. Should the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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